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Liar by Justine Larbalestier
Generally, I’m not a fan of stories with unreliable narrators, but NPR said that Liar was an overlooked book of 2009, so I decided to give it try. (The NPR reviewer also said she wasn’t a fan of unreliable narrators and she enjoyed this novel, so I thought I’d at least try it.) Micah, the unreliable narrator of this novel, is a liar. About anything, about everything. And suddenly, her classmate, Zach, turns up dead. So this is the premise and its hard for me to review this without giving anything away. I will say this: this book requires careful reading- when, if ever, is Micah telling the truth? At times, that was a daunting challenge because Micah is a teenager and Larbalestier has written her quite believably as one, but have you listened to kids talk these days?! (Get off my lawn.) This book can be read and interpreted in many ways and even though I didn’t particularly LOVE this book, I’m curious to go back and read it with a different filter than before. Oh, and I still dislike unreliable narrators.